Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 16:15:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509080645.QAA01164@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199509080606.IAA11721@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 8, 95 08:06:36 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > Oooh, they're wasting space with a root directory! Sin! can't have that. > > I bet the root directory and the single file therein are actually > dummies. They are only there to not confuse people looking at it > without the proper driver loaded. I'd daresay they are - I'd guess that the FAT is only 1 sector long, and various other space-saving things too. > I've already been discussing this with Bruce (altough, this has been > at the time the article about OS/2's install floppies appeared here), > and the result was that it's rather useless since the BIOS cannot > handle it, and our installation procedure does require a single (1.2 > MB !!!) floppy at all. Does the BIOS actually rangecheck the sector numbers you try to read? Talk about a nuisance 8( (As suggestions go, it wasn't a bad one) > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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